Head of Year - Secondary school environment

Pastoral /Behaviour Lead

Starting ASAP

Based in Bradford

Salary equivalent: Band S01 SCP 23 to 25

Are you an experienced Teacher or member of SLT?

Have you led on School Behaviour previously or had experience of being a Pastoral Lead?

Are you looking for a new challenge within a forward thinking Academy?

Please read through the below and if you are interested, we are very keen to hear from you!

Core purpose of the job role:

• To be a key point of contact for all matters relating to students within the assigned year group
• To work as part of a team, including teachers and support staff, to develop and deliver strategies to improve student welfare and well-being.
• To help students overcome barriers to learning through a range of targeted interventions focused on securing student social, emotional and physical wellbeing
• To effectively respond to the welfare support of students through effective work with parents and carers and other relevant agencies
• To liaise with the SENCO, Faculty Leaders, Teachers and Learning Support Assistants regarding the academic needs of your Year Group students to support their learning
• To undertake the requisite training for Child Protection and subsequently take a lead role, alongside the DSL, as a named person
• Liaise with others to organise Year Group assemblies, individual achievement rewards & celebration events, including the End of Year celebration event
• Responsibly for CEIAG for Year Group
• Responsibility for Wellbeing of Year Group, acting as the Mental Health Champion
• Administrative support e.g. dealing with correspondence, compilation/ analysis/reporting on attendance, etc
• To undertake First Aid training and be responsible for administering first aid across all year groups.

Learning Support:

• Liaise with teaching staff to assess and provide particular support to targeted students to raise achievement and enable them to overcome barriers to learning
• Establish constructive relationships and communicate with other agencies/professionals to support student pastoral care and achievement
• Provide objective and accurate feedback and reports as required, to other staff on students achievement, progress and other matters, ensuring the availability of appropriate evidence
• Ensure staff have an understanding of students’ emotional needs and are supported in strategies for reducing the impact of their behaviour in school and lessons
• Offer guidance to staff in planning, evaluating and adjusting teaching & learning approaches to take account of student needs
• To monitor and evaluate students’ responses and progress against action plans through observation and planned recording
• To maintain accurate student records’ including producing student reports and analysis of student data
• Quality assure all behaviour systems ensuring that there is total consistency of approach in dealing with behaviour concerns
• Contribute to the delivery of alternative timetables for those students who require intervention or additional support

Student Support:

• Working independently and proactively to assess the needs of individual students in order to provide encouragement, mentoring, guidance and welfare support
• Organise, deliver and evaluate 1:1 interventions, small group work and enrichment activities and provide support for students through engaging programmes
• To help reduce social and emotional barriers to learning for vulnerable students
• Attend to students’ personal needs and provide advice to assist in their social, health & hygiene development
• Take a lead role in the development, implementation and monitoring of systems relating to attendance and integration, such as registration, truancy and pastoral systems
• Devise and implement appropriate behaviour strategies to support students to positively modify their behaviour
• Carry out one day a week (on a rota basis) student behaviour mentoring, by being a visible presence on your year group corridor, supporting teachers / supply staff, advising and on strategies and removing students, from class as necessary
• Working closely with the Climate for Learning team, in supporting students in your year group
• Taking a lead role in proactively establishing constructive relationships with parents/carers, exchanging information, facilitating their support for their child’s attendance, access and learning and supporting home to school and community links

If you are interested in this job, please get in touch with us ASAP by applying to this advert. Ensure that your CV is fully up to date!

We offer competitive compensation and benefits packages. If you are a motivated individual with excellent organisational skills and a passion for providing support, we would love to hear from you. Please apply by sending your CV to this advert and one of our team will be in touch to go through your experience with you.

Full reference checks will be performed and an Enhanced DBS on the update service will be required. High levels of compliance and safeguarding checks will be conducted.